#50417 [NEW]: Separation of PCRE Pattern Syntax chapters

From: php at felixdd dot de Operating system: PHP version: Irrelevant PHP Bug Type: Documentation problem Bug description: Separation of PCRE Pattern Syntax chapters Description: ------------ Separation of the chapters of PCRE Pattern Syntax causes a lot of work to search for a specific pattern. In a former version the chapter "Pattern Syntax" was one huge chapter. http://php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.syntax.php Maybe a huge amount of information in one page is difficult to read, but now it's difficult to search for a specific syntax. As an example you want to know the meaning of (?: In one big chapter you can use the search function of the browser (Ctrl+F). But now one has to open each single page. Even the general search function "search for [(?: ] in the [online documentation]" isn't helpful: no result. Expected result: ---------------- Making again one big chapter isn't an option? No? How about adding a very short form of the syntax to the list items in this page http://php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.syntax.php i.e. ... * Subpatterns: (), (?:, (?P<name> ... * Back references: \n, (?P=name) * Assertions: (?=, (?!, (?<=, (?<! ... -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=50417&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50417&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50417&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50417&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50417&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50417&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50417&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50417&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50417&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50417&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50417&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50417&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50417&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50417&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50417&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50417&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50417&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50417&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50417&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50417&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50417&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50417&r=mysqlcfg